Died: At his home in Rosalia township, Tuesday morning, May 21, of dropsy and heart trouble, J. N. Surplus, aged .62 years, 2 months and 7 days. He was born March 14, 1839 in Morrow county, Ohio and in early life removed to Illinois. He came to Kansas in 1870 and homesteaded the farm upon which he died. Many are the hardships himself and wife endured in pioneer days. The writer has often beard him tell of having to wade through snow drifts to El Dorado 16 miles and carry home a 50 pound sack of flour and this is but one of many of the harships(sic) he lived through. His wife and four children survive him, his son J, Alex Surplus and daughters Mrs. Wm. Armour and Misses Mary and Lulu Surplus. He was a member of the U. B. church, kind neighbor and good citizen. The funeral occurred Thursday at 2 p. m. from Walnut Valley Chapel, conducted by Rev. W. J. Shull and he was laid to rest in Blankenship cemetery.
From the El Dorado Republican (El Dorado, Kansas), Friday, May 24, 1901, Page 3 --J. M. Surplus died at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday a m at his home near Rosalia. He has been ill for some time with a complication of heart disease and lung trouble. Mr. Surplus was an old resident of Butler county having come here in 1870 from Illinois. He was born March 14, 1839, in Morrow county, Ohio. His wife and four children, one boy, Alex, and three girls, Mrs. Wm. Armour, Mary and Lulu Surplus, survive him. The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at Blankenship chapel by Rev. Schull, of Pontiac. Mr. Surplus was a communicant of the Methodist church and was a man of irreproachable character. He was an affectionate friend to his family in the highest sense of the word, a fact which makes his removal more keenly felt by them.
John Nelson Surpluss (1839-1901) was my 2xg-grandfather on my mother's maternal side.
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